tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40644282014-10-02T07:21:03.450+02:00DraxblogSomewhat less experimental than it was at the end of 2002, this blog still draws its inspiration from the participants of SHWI (soc.history.what-if Usenet newsgroup) who had introduced me to this new phenomenon. The blog is still in search of its definite shape, style and general theme of posts. However, if someone insists on short definitions, I must admit that the shortest way to define it is something to do with its location – Split, Croatia.Dragannoreply@blogger.comBlogger1434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1114335187336679092005-04-24T11:30:00.000+02:002005-04-24T11:33:07.340+02:00THIS BLOG HAS MOVEDNot all archives are available, but the rest of this blog is available here. Please update your bookmarks and blogrolls. If you have any difficulties or problems with new blog and some of its features, don’t hesitate to E-mail me. Draxblog Movie Reviews is going to remain on its current address. Dragannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1114198636352740152005-04-22T21:36:00.000+02:002005-04-22T21:37:16.353+02:00[ADMINISTRATIVE] Blogroll Addition and Some Transitional IssuesFaute de mieux added to blogroll. This is going to be one of the last blogroll additions, at least on this blog. In a couple of days, hopefully, I will finish the switch. You are going to be duly noted about and asked to reset your bookmarks. Dragannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1114105278015364402005-04-21T19:39:00.000+02:002005-04-21T19:41:18.023+02:00[LOCAL ELECTIONS 2005] Glavaš (Glavas) Abandons HDZ In today’s edition of Globus, columnist Jelena Lovrić (Jelena Lovric) claims that Ivo Sanader has reached the beginning of his political end. She might be over-dramatic but the current position of Croatian prime minister represents a stark contrast to his the image of pro-European reformer, modernist and confident leader who brought his party from the abyss and brought it back to power.Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1114000283173046712005-04-20T14:30:00.000+02:002005-04-20T14:31:23.173+02:00SnubToday Slobodna Dalmacija for the very first time had regular weekly supplement dedicated to computer technology. One of the articles they dealt with the blogging phenomenon and mentioned one Croatian blog service. It wasn’t blog.hr. It was their arch-rival www.mojblog.hr. Dragannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113929547558109042005-04-19T18:51:00.000+02:002005-04-20T14:32:40.906+02:00Ratzinger! I was right. Short work by Ratzinger's conservatives. At least, there will be very little surprises coming from Vatican.Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113927908120000582005-04-19T18:23:00.000+02:002005-04-19T18:25:08.120+02:00Pope! He is elected faster than anyone has expected. My guess is that it was a short work – either by Ratzinger's conservatives or those who can't stand him. In any case, we'll see in couple of minutes.Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113835565168757292005-04-18T16:45:00.000+02:002005-04-18T16:46:05.170+02:00Self-DefiningOne of the founders of blog.hr – first Croatian blog hosting service – has recently posted an article in which he described it as “teenagers’ community blog portal” – or, in his words, “Croatian equivalent of Livejournal”. He seems to be slightly disappointed with this phenomenon, and also concerned, because having teenagers as majority of its clients brings additional responsibility. Dragannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113667381467458842005-04-16T18:02:00.000+02:002005-04-16T18:03:01.473+02:00Ivory Tower Vesna Škare-Ožbolt (Vesna Skare-Ozbolt) a.k.a. Vesna “Let Them Walk Free”, Croatian justice minister, has announced that she would reconsider certain changes in Croatian criminal law. In other words, public outrage over ridiculously light prison sentences and dramatic deterioration of public safety might hurt her DC party at the upcoming local elections. So, she hinted at possibility that theDragannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113579168945143552005-04-15T17:32:00.000+02:002005-04-15T17:33:23.060+02:00[LOCAL ELECTIONS 2005] Red and Black - Sanader's Dilemma I don’t have much time for blogging these days. But I still think that I should provide a brief update of what is supposed to be the biggest story of Croatian politics these days. In short, there is big buzz about Sanader ditching his minor league partners and creating new, more stable majority with HSP, far right party which is supposed to be reinvigorated after local elections. Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113424992474793752005-04-13T22:42:00.000+02:002005-04-13T22:43:12.480+02:00You'll Never Walk Alone To be quite frank, I’m not FC Liverpool fan. But I couldn’t help rooting for them in tonight’s Championship League quarterfinal game against Juventus. Rare are the occasions when the end of a scoreless game brings huge grin on my face. Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113412346659663382005-04-13T19:12:00.000+02:002005-04-14T06:06:00.986+02:00Things That Go Boom Last night, around 23:30, citizens of Split heard large detonation. Cause of such detonation was and still is matter of intense speculation and all kinds of weird theories. Police in its official communiqué says that its patrols didn’t find anything. If I have to guess, I would say the detonation was caused by a meteor.Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113412163894530932005-04-13T19:08:00.000+02:002005-04-13T19:09:23.896+02:00Kosor Going Down… Or Not? On the surface, presidential bid looked like a win-win proposition for Jadranka Kosor. If she won, she would become President. If she lost, she would merely return to her ministerial post, even being praised by her opponent Stipe Mesić (Stope Mesic) and perceived as Sanader’s heir apparent. Unfortunately, presidential elections, like any elections, feature this nasty category called “Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113340095230869702005-04-12T23:07:00.000+02:002005-04-12T23:08:15.233+02:00EU and Serbia-MontenegroIt seems that Serbia-Montenegro has just increased its chances to join EU. It is nevertheless going to be a very slow process with plenty of unexpected complications. But I doubt that Croatian media are going to pay much attention to this story. On the surface, this shows that Croatian chances of joining EU are very good –it is assumed that Croatia always had, still has and always will Dragannoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113253157564741072005-04-11T22:58:00.000+02:002005-04-11T22:59:17.566+02:00[ADMINISTRATIVE] The Exodus Has Begun Although I haven’t finally decided to move this blog, I’ve already begun work on moving archives. It is much harder and more time-consuming that I ever imagined. Blogging is going to be light, as you might imagine. Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113168396253193672005-04-10T23:26:00.000+02:002005-04-10T23:26:36.253+02:00TestTest.Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113164974455352022005-04-10T22:13:00.000+02:002005-04-10T22:29:34.456+02:00[LOCAL ELECTIONS] HDZ and SDP Finally Together Coalition between HDZ and SDP – great unfulfilled dream of every born-again Croatian Europhile – is going to become reality, although not in Sabor or any other place where it actually matters. Place where this historic event occurred is Plaški (Plaski), small mountain municipality in Gorski Kotar where ethnic Serbs just happen to have majority and where such majority reflected in SDSS, Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1113068979560694752005-04-09T19:48:00.000+02:002005-04-09T19:49:39.563+02:00T-Com’s Royalist DelightRTL Televizija lived to its “infotainment” principles by airing British royal wedding live. It also lived to its reputation of the cash box for T-Com, Croatian main phone operator. They produced two numbers for televoting and offered two options for the viewers –they had to choose between Prince Charles or Prince William as a person more suitable to succeed Queen Elizabeth at British throneDragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112970337675612472005-04-08T16:25:00.000+02:002005-04-08T16:25:37.676+02:00[ADMINISTRATIVE] Considering the Exodus I guess I’m not the only one who had these problems. So, you probably won’t be very surprised when I tell you that I’m seriously considering transferring this blog to another host. So far, the only argument against that decision is the sheer size of the blog. So many posts have gathered in last two years and copying all those posts and archives (and even when comments are discarded) isDragannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112970063014370622005-04-08T16:20:00.000+02:002005-04-08T16:21:03.023+02:00Pope Dreams Pope-related media hysteria has reached annoying levels in Croatia. Two major dailies, trying to make a quick buck on the phenomenon, have offered their own Pope-related books at discount prices – although the “discount” price in those particular case happens to be 25 % higher than Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Others, like Globus weekly, gave pink rosary as a free gift to any reader – Dragannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112874507176107682005-04-07T13:46:00.000+02:002005-04-07T13:48:27.190+02:00[LOCAL ELECTIONS 2005] Sanader’s Zagreb Trouble As expected, Sanader’s government has called local and regional elections for May 15th 2005. Although Croatia happens to be very centralised country and, therefore, local and regional governments, especially those in impoverished and war-ravaged areas like Slavonia, Lika and Dalmatia, don’t amount to much, the elections are going to be very important for two reasons. First, no Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112790999435560572005-04-06T14:35:00.000+02:002005-04-06T14:36:39.436+02:00[ADMINISTRATIVE] Blogroll and Other Additions Tim Gueguen added to blogroll. Few links to various Croatian media added. Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112790103171154022005-04-06T14:21:00.000+02:002005-04-06T14:21:43.173+02:00Hitler Victorious! At last week’s Croatian box-office, that is. These are the results (number of tickets sold): 1) Der Untergang (5437) 2) Robots (4992) 3) Million Dollar Baby (4473) 4) Hitch (1975) 5) Mi nismo andjeli 2 (1797) 6) Meet the Fockers (1273) 7) Be Cool (1223) 8) Assault on Precint 13 (1223) 9) Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events (1057) 10) Saw (853)Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112724264887490992005-04-05T20:03:00.000+02:002005-04-05T20:04:24.890+02:00EU Cup Half Full We live in really interesting times when Croatian daily newspapers reports about new polls showing 51 % of Croatians supporting Croatian entry to EU as a wonderful news. However, even if such triumphalism clearly shows pro-EU bias of Croatian media establishment, it also shows how desperate things look to average Europhile. Any, even the slightest, reversal of anti-EU trends is hailed Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112647604922875782005-04-04T22:45:00.000+02:002005-04-04T22:46:44.926+02:00Casualty of Book War Last weekend Jutarnji list and Večernji list (Vecernji list) published results of two surveys about Croatian reading habits. Both newspapers claimed to be the most read among Croatians. I tend to believe the survey giving the top spot to Jutarnji list, and for a simple reason. It is more likely that Jutarnji list is going to have bigger circulation because it is both the “serious” daily Dragannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4064428.post-1112556569378884532005-04-03T21:28:00.000+02:002005-04-03T21:29:29.383+02:00First Day Without John Paul II I've decided not to have a post titled "RIP John Paul II (1920-2005)" because it is pointless. Everybody knows that Pope died and everyone who has read this blog regularly probably knows that I disagreed with the late pontiff on many issues. That doesn't mean that I'm not saddened by his death and unmoved by the global eruption of emotions created by that event. But I'm also Dragannoreply@blogger.com0